Have a general question about the USR-TCP232-302. If anyone recalls I have been having the issue where everything I send to it bounces back. Also I have found that I can only receive info from the NESS panel. That is I can see the PIRs detect movement. I can see when I arm and disarm the panel at the physical keypad but if I ask to arm or disarm through HA nothing happens. I have checked the three wire cable I have and there is continuity there. Anything else I can do to fault find this. Could the converter be the issue?
how is your arm home issue going after the 0.91 update? iāve still got the same issues but no actual errors in the debug log that i can tell.
Editā¦ nvm I didnāt add āinfer_arming_state = trueā into configuration.yaml
Says armed away nowā¦ should it say armed home? I guess itās the same . Gives you a disarm button
Good catch 
. Iām planning on updating to 0.91.0 this afternoon, donāt imagine there to be any issues since I manually patched the component files on 0.90.0 so I didnāt have to wait 2 weeks 
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No yet, there is an open issue to have the status accurately reflected.
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I use home mode all the time, so Iām glad I can now disarm but would like to have it show the correct status though.
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Sorry @OzGav - I canāt replicate your issue as per before ā¦ canāt remember if we checked/compared firmware versions on the TCP232?
Thanks I will try and get a copy of the firmware and reflash it and if that fails I will buy a second one from eBay and see if that shows my current one to be faulty.
FWIW - I got mine from ā99techā. Were cheapest āin countryā at the time and good service.
Mine is running this:
Firmware Versionļ¼V4018
Cheers,
Chris
Thanks they are the company I bought from as well based on your previous advice. Same firmware as well. Will see if I get a response from my request for the firmware and if not I will get a cheaper one off ebay and wait for it to arriveā¦
Great work to Cryptelli. I can report this is working through a Lantronix Serial-IP converter. However, I have a suggestion for an improvement.
I run my panel with 2 Areas. The first is the main house (most zones) and the second is my workshop (2 x zones). this allows the workshop to be armed whilst I am in the house. It seems that the panel in Hass only understands a single area. Would be great to see this understand the two areas.
Hope this makes some sense!
Adrian.
Just tried a new TCP232 and same problem as before. So I am guessing either the panel has some software or hardware issue that is preventing it from receiving commandsā¦
Have you tried directly connecting to a pc without the converter?
No I havent. I can try that and see what I get out of it. Might take a few days to get around to it.
@nickw444 Iāve noticed by using a scan_interval of 3 seconds when arming/disarming it sometimes doesnāt register the first time, but does after 2-3 attempts.
Just raising in case something can be done to solve this issue or if itās just a downside to having a faster sensor reaction time.
Apart from that, system has been running solid!
Mine has been running very stable also. The only issues I currently have are
Always shows Armed Away when Armed Home
Requires a disarm or arm event to register state of alarm after restarting HASS
Some other features that would be nice would be the handling of output and output statusā. Plus the Power Fail and Battery Fail Alarm. The battery one is good as it indicates that the backup battery requires replacing.
Cheers
Agreed, +1 on all those suggestions.
Hi,
Did you ever get this sorted? I am having the same issue and cannot get it resolved. I am running 0.92.1
thanks
Michael
Hi Michael. So you can receive info from the panel but cant send to the panel?
I am yet to look at it again but the other issue I had was when I bought the three wire serial cable I had to swap the cables around to get it to work. I assume I have it correct now since I can receive commands but it is something I wanted to check further.
excuse my dodgy jumper wires, but the female rs-232 DB9 pins on the USR-TCP232-302 are pins 2,3 and 5 correct?
The ethernet convertor seems to be working fine, but I cant seem to get the windows based nesscomms software (v5.7.0.0) to work over a virtual com port. āERROR: Product not communicatingā
It is a brand new d8x deluxe panel. Iāve got 9600,8,N,1 and then LINK and āSimilar RFC2217ā set on my USR-TCP232. Panel is in installer mode.
Just wanted to confirm my pinouts were ok?. Cheers
No I think you have got it back to front havent you?
Db9 Female Wiring | Wiring Diagram
https://images.app.goo.gl/uJ5WK7DpuAGivs2U8
